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The E-Book Murders (Global Crime Prevention Unit #1) [Kindle Edition]

A.D. Vates
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Global Crime Prevention Unit - a new way of tackling mysteries and fighting crime.

Will Doyle had not spoken to his sister Chloe for five years. But after she invited him to her house in South London, he is asked to join the mysterious G.C.P.U. - an elite team who utilise the power of the internet and modern technology to solve complex mysteries and crimes.

Unsure if he will join, Will nevertheless shadows the team on a particularly unusual case...

The E-Book Murders is the first novella in an exciting new series of futuristic crime novellas called G.C.P.U.
(Word Count: Approx. 30,000 words)

Extracts:

"Sorry to interrupt but can we backtrack here for a second - what is Foursquare - look, I do know about Facebook cos a few mates of mine made me sign up, but..."
"I'm prayin' to God ya didn't put all your info up there," Nepthys interrupted. There was no mistaking her Californian accent when it was set against the others' middle class London accents.
"I just filled in all the forms, like you would with any form."
"Even your birthday and hometown?"
"Of course. Should I not have?"
"Facebook's a bit like Hotel California - 'You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave'."
"What Nepthys means is that once you upload your details onto Facebook they'll hold them forever - even if you eventually remove yourself from their site." Chloe said. "How are the modifications to the MQ1 Predator coming along?"
"I'd rather talk about it when we know for sure if he's on our side." Nepthys replied, while glaring coldly at Will.


But it wasn't just her dress sense, she had also mastered the art of moving with stealth in an urban environment. She found that if she walked at certain angles in different enclosed spaces and repeated these movements, most people would fail to notice the repetition of her movement. And this led to strange experiments, such as when she walked across the same crossing near Tottenham Court Road Station two hundred and twelve times before anyone noticed her and thought she was lost, or when she managed to walk around the dance-floor in the Ministry of Sound without being accosted by a single guy for the entire night.
Now, she decided that she needed to examine the men's toilets to see if she could find any evidence there. She looked around the room to see how many men were sitting on the ground floor, she counted four and then she went to the first floor and saw seven men. As she walked round the first floor, giving the impression that she was looking for a friend, she examined each of their drinks to see how much was left. Half of the men though, had closed white cups for their coffees, so she tried to work out how much was left in these drinks by looking at how they lifted their drinks and to see if this gave away their drink's weight and in turn how much was left in each cup. To her delight, when she looked at one of these cups after one of the men left the first floor, she learned that her guess for his cup was emphatically accurate.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 419 KB
  • Print Length: 91 pages
  • Publisher: Red Birch Publishing (8 Dec 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B006K23CFM
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #89,003 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
The Kindle Murders is a fantastic murder mystery which is captivating from beginning to end. It portrays a whole different outlook on the development of technology and the dangers of its uses. This is a well written and thought out storyline which this reader feels deserves a lot of credit for the amount of time and effort involved. I will definitely be downloading the sequel when it is available. Thank you for such a riveting read.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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This is a great book, based on an intriguing idea: how can modern technology be used to track down murderers? The book has a genuinely new take on the genre, but at its core are great characters and a great mystery that kept me hooked right to the end. The writing is great, the pacing is excellent, and I hope there'll be a sequel soon!
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Once in a while, you read a work of fiction that really takes hold of your imagination. For this particular reader, The Kindle Murders was one of these books. In this novella, we are introduced to the Global Crime Prevention Unit, a crime fighting team who have access to some incredible technology, but also utilise social networks to gather information on victims and suspects.

The writer has a tough task in balancing the case in hand and introducing the team themselves, but he pulls off this juggling act remarkably well. For example, newcomer Will Doyle serves as the perfect guide for the reader, he is the team's newcomer and we see much of the G.C.P.U. through his eyes. The remaining four members (Chloe, Nepthys, Durga & Artemis) of the team are female, and I am delighted to see the writer convey four intelligent and smart women without resorting to sterotypes.

This brings us to the case itself, what a clever and original idea. I don't want to give too much away, but the title The Kindle Murders gives the reader a decent hint where Mr. Vates' story is heading. It is increasingly rare to find original case ideas in mystery and crime fiction, but readers will be delighted to see the author venturing into unchartered territory.

Finally, it appears this is the first of a series of ongoing novellas and that the author has chosen to sow seeds of doubt and intrigue in the reader's mind in regards to several issues. I anxiously await the next book in the series because there is clearly so much more to come from the G.C.P.U. If you like innovative and intriguing crime/mystery fiction, you could a lot worse than pick up this gem of a book.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Poor
I'm with the other 1* reviewer on this. Charlie's Angels meet Batman with Q lurking in the background.
Is this crime? Is this Sci-fi? Fantasy? What? Read more
Published 1 month ago by P. J. A. Jennings
Intriguing start to an unusual crime series
The E-Book Murders is sheer unadulterated fun, it reminded a great deal of a good summer blockbuster: lots of cool action with some brains behind it too. The G.C.P.U. Read more
Published 2 months ago by TheHandOfPod
Fresh and innovative crime novella
The Kindle Murders is a fantastic high-tec, fast-paced crime novella. The GCPU use cutting edge technology to monitor crime patterns across the world, looking for modus operandi... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Alex Le Soum
Sci-fi
I can't believe any-one could rate this book with 5 stars let alone all 6 reviewers. Thank goodness I didn't pay anything for this read just my time. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Miss K. Frost
WOW
This is great story, and very cleverly thought out. It also makes you think about how far technology has come and where its going. Read more
Published 4 months ago by C. Anderson
Wonderfully modern
Normally I find the Crime genre a little too heavy going for me and rather dark but this book was gorgeously not so. Read more
Published 4 months ago by J Mountifield
A Crime Series for Generation Internet
The Kindle Murders has an incredibly fresh and vibrant feel to it. Many of the ideas behind the crime group the Global Crime Prevention Unit feel incredibly innovative and had me... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Darwin Freud
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